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The Brooklyn Bridge: John A. Roebling
The bridge we, as a group, choose to model for this project is the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge was built by architects named John A. Roebling and Washington Roebling. John A. Roebling was born in Germany on June 12, 1806 and immigrated to America in 1831. He received a degree in civil engineering at Royal Polytechnic, in Berlin, 1826. Sadly, on construction site of the Brooklyn Bridge, due to an accident, John died, at the age of 1869. Washington Roebling was John’s son. Washington was born on May 26, 1837, in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania.He too, was an architect for the Brooklyn Bridge. Just like his father, Washington, received a degree in civil engineering at Royal Polytechnic, in Berlin, 1857. The Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge
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